Potato-planter.



W. LIPPITZ.

Poma PLANTER".

APPLICATION FILED APIL29, |915.

1,21 1 ,861 Patented J an. 9, 1917.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oFFIoE.

WILHELM LIPPI'rz, oF PosEN, GERMANY, AssIeNoE To THE FIRM oF GEEEI'IDEE t LEssEE, oF POSEMGEEMANY.

Forero-PLANTEE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

:Patented Jan. 9, 191 v.

Application iled April 29, 1915. Serial No.k 24,839.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILHELM LIPPITZ, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Posen, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Potato-Planters, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in potato planters, particularly to improvements in that class of potato planters described by Patent Number 1,068,673 of July 29, 1913. In practice it has been discovered that potato planters constructed according to said patent show the disadvantage that the potatoes of one row could only be planted at certain predetermined intervals because the distance between the holes made by the spades was determined by the distance between each two of the non-adjustable spades.

It is the object of the present invention to overcome this disadvantage by constructing the feeding wheel in such a manner that the distances between the holes of each row can be changed at will. With this end in view the feed wheel with the spades and the pockets is not made as an integral whole, but the pockets withthe spades and grippers are made removable and adjustable.

Another object of the invention resides in the arrangement of a partition within each pocket in order to prevent a premature discharge of the potatoes from the pockets and to provide a discharge opening in said partition located at a placeinsuring the discharge of the potatoes at a certain predetermined moment after the formation of the hole in the ground.

In the accompanying drawing.: Figure 1 is a vertical section through the feeding wheel of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a side view of a feeding wheel constructed according to the present invention. Fig. 3 is a similar view of a part of said feeding wheel with the pockets arranged at greater distances from each other than those shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective detail view of a pocket with its spade, gripper and partition. Fig. 5 shows in side view, partly in section one of the pockets secured to the rim of a wheel. Fig. 6 is a vertical section through the parts illustrated in Fig. 5, and Fig. 7 is a top plan view of a portion of the wheel rim with one of the pockets secured thereto by two bolts.

The feeding wheel according to the present invention is made of a plurality of sections and preferably consists of a rim a, Figs. l and 2, to which, by means of screws or the like, any desired number of pockets z' with spades and grippers 'n are connected (see Fig. 4) as shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7 The rim a for the wheel a is for this purpose provided with two rows of screw holes b and c and four holes d are provided at the bottom of each pocket c'. The pockets i are secured to the rim z by means of screw bolts e, two of such bolts e are suiiicient for each pocket t, as shown in Fig. 7 The distance between two of the pockets is governed by a corresponding selection of the holes b or c for securing the pocket z'. According to Fig. 2, twelve pockets z', and according to Fig. 3, eightI pockets z', each provided with a spade are shown. It will be apparent that in the construction shown in Fig. 3, the distance between the single spades is larger than that between the spades shown in Fig. 2, and consequently the distance between the holes made by the spades will vary accordingly. The potatoes are taken from a receptacle p, which is attached to the side of the planter wheel a. Each pocket z' has an opening lw in its center and the grippers n are secured to each pocket insuch a manner, that they are just in front of each opening. The grippers are so shaped that they allow the potatoes to drop through the openings w into the pockets z' as soonV as the potatoes have reached the upper part;4 of the wheel. 'The potatoes are then carried along at the bottom of the pocket, until theyreach the partition walls r preventing the potatoes from being prematurely discharged. Each of the pockets according to the present invention has its ownpartition r. Each of these partitions has'a discharge opening o for the discharge of the potato contained in said pocket and this opening is so disposed that the potato is discharged at a certain predetermined position of the pocket'in order to drop into the hole made by the spades.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim ist* In a potato planter the combination, with a feeding wheel, of pockets, each adapted to receive one potato and adapted to be re- V2 Y Y 1,211,se1

Y* Ip'test'mony whereof, my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

` WILHELM LIPPITZ.

of said Whl at crtain preatemhedfdstances,spades and grppers for each of said pockets, and@ Partition Wbhilx each @i Said Y 5 pockts p 'dd with"a'dchgirg'pg for the potato, located at Vthat sr'of th pocket on which the spade is disposed.,V

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